Yesterday with the cold weather and frosty snow at the top of the mountain, and the trees that turn into the juhyo (and had since reverted back to being just trees!) even looked like they were starting to grow back into those ice monsters once again... it had an "early season" feel up there.

So... today is the day we are expecting some new snow. It is a cloudy but quite bright start to the day in Zao. Cold, but not that cold though temperatures should hopefully stay below 0 throughout the day.

By mid-afternoon, we should be seeing the snow fall on the mountain and perhaps fairly heavy snow tonight and more into tomorrow - so tomorrows report should hopefully be a good one.

There is just a slight wind at the moment and good visibility for the most part on the mountain.